The Last House on Dead End Street, Gross!!!!!

Amputation! Disembowelment! Dissection! Rape! Porn! Oral sex with animal parts! Okay, I watch them so you don't have to. Any redeeming quality to this film? You decide. A big clue, none of the cast and crew use their real names in the credits. Let us take a look at 1973's "The Last House on Dead End Street," directed by Roger Watkins. Low budget, grindhouse, exploitation, and a few inches away from porn. Snuff?  You may wonder.

Terry (Watkins) gets out of jail and is angry. He now wants to make films. He assembles a bunch of perverts who do porn films and offers them a chance to do something a bit different...a bit more extreme. He has some helpers. The beautiful but psycho Kathy (Kathy Curtin) who will ultimately help him disembowel and dissect beautiful women is on board as well as pornographers Ken (Ken Fisher) and Bill (Bill Schlageter). Now let us talk Patricia (Patricia Kuhn). She is an actress/performer. Her husband Jim (Edward E. Pixley) is having trouble selling his porn. He throws parties in which Patricia dresses in lingerie, shoe polishes her face black, and allows some guy to whip the snot out of her. I assume this is weird, though maybe I don't get out enough.

Kathy convinced Patricia to act in Terry's movies. She does. Terry muscles a deviant promoter, a couple of actresses, and Patricia's husband to come to his set. There the carnage continues. References to Zeus, virgins, human sacrifice, and mutilation seem to define Terry's theme. There will be long and excruciating scenes of beautiful woman getting gutted and having their legs amputated while alive. Eyeballs will meet power drills, goat hoofs will be sucked, and innards will be yanked out of abdomens. All for what?

What are Terry's motives in pulling women apart...and some men? Will anyone survive Terry's cinematic wrath? Goat hoofs? Does this movie make a statement about the increasing misogyny in western civilization. Does this film promote misogyny in western civilization? Should it have ever been made? I know...gross! Despicable! No way! I get it. For the record I'm not recommending it...but admit it, you're curious and some of you are looking for it now. "The Last House on Dead End Street," you can watch it and never have to tell anyone you did.